International Conference at the University of Bergen

27-29 November, 2003

PROGRAMME (Preliminary)

Thursday 27 November

09.00-09.15: Opening

09.15-12.00:

• Jenny B. White (Boston University), "The paradox of the New Islamic Woman in Turkey"
• Leah Shakdiel (Israel), "The Western Wall in Jerusalem - a case study on the cross between nationalism, religion, and gender"
• Willy Jansen (University of Nijmegen), "Mary in the Middle Eastern Context. Gender and the Revival of a Symbol"

13.15-15:00:

• Nefissa Naguib (Oslo University College), "Engaging with Transnationalism and Patriarchy; Case studies from Palestine and Egypt"
• Yohai Hakak (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), "From the Yeshiva to the Army: Masculine Identities and the Jewish Ultra Orthodox Community in Israel"

15.30-17.30:

• Siba Shakib (Cologne) "Eine Blume für die Frauen aus Kabul" (to be confirmed)

Abstracts

Friday 28 November

• Beth Baron (City University of New York), "Women, Reform and Social Advocacy in Egypt 1900s- 1950s"
• Heleen Murre-van den Berg (University of Leiden), "Nineteenth-cenntury Protestant Missions and Middle-Eastern Women - An Overview"
• Ellen Fleischmann (University of Dayton), "Sowing but Not Reaping: Tensions Between Medium and Message in Female Education in Lebanese Mission Schools, 1850-1940"

13.15-15.00:

• Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski (American University of Beirut), "Women Students and Religious Integration at the American University of Beirut 1920s-1960s"
• Karin Ask (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen), "Caring for the Living and the Souls of the Dead - An analysis of Religious Work Among Afghan Women During Years of War"

15.30-16.30:

• Azam Torab (University of Cambridge), "Vows, Mediumship and Gender: Women's Votive Meals in Iran"
• Ingvild Flaskerud (University of Tromsø), "Standard-bearers of Hussein. Women commemorating Karbala"

Abstracts

Saturday 29 November

• Nahda Younis Shehada (Institute of Social Studies, The Hague), "Uncodified Justice: The Intersection of Customary Practice and Codified Islamic Family Law in Palestine"
• Benedicte Solheim & Janne Bøe (University of Bergen), "Gendered Strategies and Islamic Piety - A Comparison of Urban and Rural Palestinian Women"
• Moslih Kanaaneh and Frode Storås (University of Bergen), "Al Karamah - Human Dignity"

Abstracts

Introduction

Practical Information